I never watched it on TV when I was a kid

Branson 2022-04-23 07:01:31

When I grow up, it feels really wonderful to look back at the suspense that I didn't solve when I was a child.

The first half of the textbook-level horror film, the second half of the journey still returned to the universal morality like melodrama, but some surreal scenes (demolition of walls) created without abusing CGI in that era are quite good.

The heart of horror is the unpredictable. Generic horror experiences must be based on human senses (sound design, with misleading editing), and when the film begins to explain why or go back in time to break the continuity of the horror experience, the horror film part is over, All that's left is to fill in the gaps in the story structure with universal moral melo drama or action scenes.

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  • Mike Enslin: [describing the room] There's a sofa, a writing desk, faux antique armoire, floral wallpaper. Carpet's unremarkable except for a stain beneath a thrift-store painting of a schooner lost at sea. The work is done in the predictably dull fashion of Currier and Ives. The second painting is of an old woman reading bedtime stories - a Whistler knockoff - to a group of deranged children while another Madonna and child watch from the background. It does have the vague air of menace. The third and final, painfully dull painting, the ever popular "The Hunt". Horses, hounds and constipated British lords. Some smartass spoke about the banality of evil. If that's true, then we've in the 7th circle of hell.

    [turns off tape recorder and pauses, then turns it back on]

    Mike Enslin: It does have its charms.

  • Mike Enslin: [talk into tape recorder] Hotels are a naturally creepy place... Just think, how many people have slept in that bed before you? How many of them were sick? How many... died?